Chefziba
| Chefziba | |||
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| hebrew : | חֶפְצִי-בָּה | ||
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 Israel
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| District : | North | ||
| Founded : | 1922 | ||
| Coordinates : | 32 ° 31 ' N , 35 ° 26' E | ||
| Height : | 76 m below sea level | ||
| Residents : | 741 (as of 2018) | ||
| Community code : | 0090 | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 2 | ||
| Postal code : | 19135 | ||
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Chefziba ( Hebrew חֶפְצִיבָּה Chefzi-bah , German for 'my pleasure in her' ) is a kibbutz in northern Israel . It is located between the Jezreel Valley and the Bet She'an Valley, between the cities of Afula and Bet She'an , at the foot of Mount Gilboa . In 2018, 741 people lived in the kibbutz. According to Isa 62,4 EU, the name means : "My pleasure clings to her".
history
Chefziba was founded in 1922 by a group of Czechoslovak and German Jews from the Blau-Weiß youth movement under the leadership of Moshe Schwabe . Later Romanian and Soviet Jews joined them. On the grounds of Kibbutz lying synagogue of Bet Alpha , which was discovered in 1928 by local settlers. Since 1962, Chefziba has been home to a center for Makuya , a religious movement from Japan with a strong relationship with Israel. In 1972, on the 50th anniversary of the kibbutz, a Japanese garden was established in Chefziba . In 2003 the collective facilities of the kibbutz were privatized .
In April 1926, the 20-year-old Arthur Koestler found Chefziba while looking for a kibbutz to join. However, the candidate did not pass the probationary period of several weeks because he did not like the agricultural work and he refused to learn Hebrew. “So he ended up in Jerusalem for the next three years before settling for Paris and embarking on the career of a writer. He described his unsuccessful attempt to join a kibbutz in his 1945 novel “Thieves in the Night”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (chephtsi-bah, "my delight is in her")
- ↑ Kibbutzim, April 21, 2008 yesterday and today
- ^ Ruben Frankenstein: Hachschara in the brand yard near Freiburg. A search for clues. In: Manfred Bosch (Hrsg.): Alemannic Judaism - traces of a lost culture. Eggingen 2001, pp. 123-139. ( Online on the website of the Stegen Home History Working Group )